The peasantry and the state in Latin America : a troubled past, an uncertain future / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer -- From rubber estate to simple commodity production : agrarian struggles in the northern Bolivian Amazon / Willem Assies -- The impact of neo-liberal economics on Peruvian peasant agriculture in the 1990s / John Crabtree -- Whither o campesinato? : historical peasantries of Brazilian Amazonia / Stephen Nugent -- From dependency to reform and back again : the Chilean peasantry during the Twentieth Century / Warwick E. Murray -- Globalization and the reinvention of Andean tradition : the politics of community and ethnicity in Highland Bolivia / John McNeish -- Devil pact narratives in rural Central America : class, gender and 'resistance' / Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas -- Representing the peasantry? : struggles for/about land in Brazil / José de Souza Martins -- On which side of what barricade? : subaltern resistance in Latin America and elsewhere / Tom Brass.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America.
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Title
Latin American peasants.
International Standard Book Number
0714683191
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Agricultural laborers-- Latin America.
Agricultural laborers-- Political activity-- Latin America.